14 DAY TRIAL // Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is gearing up for the release of its first Windows Phone-based smartphone in more markets around the world, and New Zealand is one of the countries to receive it soon.
The handset vendor announced via its New Zealand Twitter account that the two phones would hit shelves in the country sometime in March.
“The Nokia Lumia 800 will be available through @TelecomNZ and @vodafoneNZ in March. Nokia Lumia 70 will be exclusive to Telecom, March also,” the mobile phone maker tweeted.
Earlier this week, we learned that the company was planning the release of Lumia 800 on the market in Australia, and that Optus, Telstra, and Vodafone had all lined up to add it to their offerings.
What remains to be seen is when exactly these devices will hit the market in New Zealand, and what price tags they would sport at that time.
For those out of the loop, we should note that Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 were the first smartphones from Nokia to run under Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system (the company launched a Nokia Lumia 900 in the meantime).
The Lumia 800, currently the flagship Windows Phone from Nokia, was built on the same design as the Nokia N9, which runs under MeeGo.
The handset features a 3.7-inch touchscreen display, a 1.4GHz application processor, and 16GB of internal memory.
Moreover, it was packed with an 8-megapixel photo snapper on the back, with support for HD video recording, as well as with 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth capabilities, GPS receiver, and support for Nokia’s own applications for the Windows Phone, Nokia Drive and Nokia Music.
Lumia 710, the cheaper of the two, features a 3.7-inch screen as well, along with the 1.4GHz CPU, but boasts only 8GB of internal memory, and a 5-megapixel photo snapper on the back. The rest of the capabilities are similar with those inside its bigger brother.
